CFP: [20th] James Joyce panel at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900

full name / name of organization:

Agata Szczeszak-Brewer

contact email:

brewera@wabash.edu

â€œEssentialist Joyce?â€

The International James Joyce Foundation invites proposals for 15-minutepapers to be presented at the Louisville Conference on Literature andCulture since 1900. The conference will take place at the University ofLouisville, on February 21-23, 2008. Please send abstracts related to oneor more of the questions listed below to Agata Szczeszak-Brewer atbrewera_at_wabash.edu by October 3. Are Joyceâ€™s characters defined by anunchanging â€œessenceâ€? Does Joyce subvert a colonial Manichaean perspectivein his fiction and political writing? Could cross-sections ofanthropology, political science, and postcolonial theory help usunderstand Joyceâ€™s interrogation of chauvinism, nationalism, racism, andpatriarchy? Does Joyce employ, in Spivakâ€™s words, â€œstrategic essentialismâ€in his construction of Bloom and other characters?